Get current page title from API

Wednesday 28 May 2008 8:39:38 pm

Bastien,

What exactly do you mean by page title? Contents of the title tag, or maybe the name of the node? What are your restrictions on what a title might be?

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Thursday 29 May 2008 2:48:44 am

If you aim at getting the title in a universal way, that it would be difficult in my opinion. eZ Publish makes it possible to edit the XHTML head templates and that is by no means hacking, but standard customization. For example, we change the default title-generation rules in most of our integrations, and those also follow different algorithms. Also, for a lot of people that would take place in the template itself, so there will be no title-dedicated variable in the system, that you could easily reach for.

Now, one thing that you could try, which is also available at API level, are the object names, which are names based on selected attribute values of content objects. In most cases, they are kept short. Unfortunately, they do not reflect the structure by themselves.

Now, I have no idea how that information is relevant to your needs - hope it could help a bit.

Cheers,
Piotrek

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Thursday 29 May 2008 4:07:50 am

Hi Bastien,

if this is of help for you, here is the code I have at the end of my pagelayout template to add a XiTi tracker. The XiTi tracker is similar to Google analytics etc, and I needed to have the page title as a variable, to use it inside the javascript code:

(... other code, inside this pagelayout.tpl)

<!-- Xiti starts here -->

{let name=Path
     path=$module_result.path
     reverse_path=array()}
  {section show=is_set($module_result.title_path)}
    {set path=$module_result.title_path}
  {/section}
  {section loop=$:path}
    {set reverse_path=$:reverse_path|array_prepend($:item)}
  {/section}

{set-block scope=root variable=site_title}
{section loop=$Path:reverse_path}{$:item.text|wash}{delimiter} / {/delimiter}{/section} - {$site.title|wash}
{/set-block}
{/let}

{literal}
<a href="http://www.xiti.com/xiti.asp?s=999999" title="WebAnalytics">
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
{/literal}
Xt_param = 's=999999&p={$site_title|wash(javascript)}';
{literal}
try {Xt_r = top.document.referrer;}
catch(e) {Xt_r = document.referrer; }
Xt_h = new Date();
Xt_i = '<img width="80" height="15" border="0" alt="" ';
Xt_i += 'src="http://logv3.xiti.com/g.xiti?'+Xt_param;
Xt_i += '&hl='+Xt_h.getHours()+'x'+Xt_h.getMinutes()+'x'+Xt_h.getSeconds();
if(parseFloat(navigator.appVersion)>=4)
{Xt_s=screen;Xt_i+='&r='+Xt_s.width+'x'+Xt_s.height+'x'+Xt_s.pixelDepth+'x'+Xt_s.colorDepth;}
document.write(Xt_i+'&ref='+Xt_r.replace(/[<>"]/g, '').replace(/&/g, '$')+'" title="Internet Audience">');
//-->
</script>
<noscript>
{/literal}
Mesure d'audience ROI statistique webanalytics par <img width="80" height="15" src="http://logv3.xiti.com/g.xiti?s=999999&p={$site_title|wash(javascript)}" alt="WebAnalytics" />
</noscript></a>

<!-- Xiti ends here -->

as you can see, the variable $site_title will contain the page title. That way, I transmit the current page title to the JS code.

I hope you can reuse some bits of this in your development,

Best regards,
</Pascal>

Thursday 29 May 2008 5:04:45 am

Hi Bastien,

well, the standard code for that is:

    <title>{$site_title}</title>

which can be found in the template called design\standard\templates\page_head.tpl.

The way eZ Publish works is that every request will first get to the module handler, which will process the template variables like $site_title, and which after that will produce the XHTML code.

Does this help? There's no such a function called get_page_title( ) or so.

If you want to further discuss this outside of this forum, you may contact me at ezpublish (at) bizandgo (dot) com.

</Pascal>

Thursday 29 May 2008 7:09:40 am

OK, so could you try to add this code to your ezpublish template to execute it on each page and see what value does it return for each page :

function get_page_title()
{
$current_title = $GLOBALS['ini']->variable( 'SiteSettings', 'SiteName' );
echo "Page title : $current_title";
}
get_page_title();

I can't test it on a ezpublish platform but if this script really show you the page of the title, I can provide you the BETA of SpongeStats 3.1 to see if there is something wrong.

Thank you very much for your help.
Regards,
Bastien.

Thursday 29 May 2008 7:55:53 am

OK, so if it's not possible to include a PHP marker in the template, you can't use an external PHP tool to manage your webstats ?

If this is the case, I don't have to spend some time on the ezpublish get_title function :)